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A primer for the use of the Mohawk children, to acquire the spelling and reading of their own, as well as to get acquainted with the English, tongue, which for that purpose is put on the opposite page. : = Waerighwaghsawe iksaongoenwa. Tsiwaondad-derighhonny kaghyadoghsera; nayondeweyestaghk ayeweanaghnodon ayeghyàdow kaniyenkehàga kaweanondaghkouh; dyorheaf-hàga oni tsinihadiweanotea

by: Claus, Daniel, 1727-1787; Brown, Harold, 1863-1900. fmo RIBRL

Publication date: 1786

Topics: Mohawk language, Mohawk language, Readers (Primary), Catechisms, Mohawk, Indian linguistics, Imprint 1786

Publisher: London : Printed by C. Buckton, Great Pultney-Street

Collection: jcbindigenous; JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English; Mohawk

Item Size: 258.9M

Attributed to Daniel Claus by Sabin

First printed in Montreal, 1781

English and Mohawk on opposite pages

Primer includes section on the alphabet, lists of words in one to eight syllables, a catechism, texts of prayers, the names and order of the books of the Old and New Testaments, and roman numeral letters and their spelled out translations in Mohawk

Signatures: A-F (E1 missigned F1) G² (-G2)

Engraved illustration of Mohawk children in a classroom is bound as a frontispiece

Engraved head pieces

Sabin

Church, E.D. Discovery

Pilling, J.C. Algonquian

ESTC

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: p. 39-44 are cut at bottom of pages, affecting only signature markings

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full treed calf; front board fully detached; rear board semi-detached

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Harold Brown: bookplate on front pastedown